{"id":472791,"date":"2026-02-13T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/472791\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:22:10","slug":"what-happens-if-you-are-not-married-and-die-without-a-will-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/472791\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens if you are not married and die without a will | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Lewis has explained what happens if you are not married and die without a will.<\/p>\n<p>The Money Saving Expert founder explained more about the intestacy laws in England and Wales during the Martin Lewis Money Show on Tuesday (10 February). <\/p>\n<p>The financial guru explained: \u201cIf you are not married or in a civil partnership, if you are cohabiting but not married, your partner is not entitled to any of your assets under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lewis also warned that being married but not having a will can also cost a person more in inheritance tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis has explained what happens if you are not married and die without a will. The Money&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-472791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}